| Chino Love Song 1979 | |
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Album |
Taking the Dative |
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Released |
1994 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
2:12 |
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Previous Track |
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Next Track |
"Wrong!" |
Chino Love Song 1979 is the third song on the tape Taking the Dative. It was re-released on the compilation Ghana.
Lyrics[]
And the May sun shone down on California And the strawberries grew fat and full And thick and red and as big as your fist And the traffic on Riverside Drive was thin But by no means non-existent When I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there And your hand in the basket Was nimble-fingered, and red finger-nailed And it made me remember the sunflower that popped up outside my window one Morning in Norwalk It was bright yellow and it was real inviting And I almost forgot that it was an intruder And I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 2012-09-07 - Hopscotch Festival - Fletcher Opera Theater - Raleigh, NC
- 2014-06-13 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
| Taking the Dative |
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Side One: "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" |
| Ghana |
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Track list: "Golden Boy" • "Pure Gold" • "Papagallo" • "Song for John Davis" • "Stars Around Her" • "Going to Port Washington" • "Blood Royal" • "The Only Thing I Know" • "Raja Vocative" • "Hatha Hill" • "Going to Kirby Sigston" • "Please Come Home to Hamngatan" • "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" • "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" • "Wrong!" • "Going to Jamaica" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Wild Palm City" • "The Anglo-Saxons" • "Flight 717: Going to Denmark" • "The Admonishing Song" • "Anti-Music Song" • "Going to Hungary" • "Earth Air Water Trees" • "Creature Song" • "Pure Sound" • "Going to Maine" • "Noctifer Birmingham" • "Leaving Home" |